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In FP's latest print issue, we pull apart what it means to be in Trump's world—and what we can do about it. [Thread.]

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The problem with U.S. politics is in its binary party system, where both believe they are the true America.

The only way out is to change the U.S. electoral system to allow for more parties, writes @leedrutman.

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@leedrutman “Over the past two decades, it has become increasingly difficult for the world to fix its massive trade imbalances; the very mechanisms that created them also make them harder to absorb,” @michaelxpettis writes.

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@leedrutman @michaelxpettis The only way to save a broken news industry is to make readers participate in, and pay, for its renaissance, @jimmy_wales and @OritKopel write.

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@leedrutman @michaelxpettis @jimmy_wales @OritKopel The U.S. doesn't need a grand strategy. Searching for it is stopping the country from solving the world’s most pressing problems, @mikehfuchs writes.

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@leedrutman @michaelxpettis @jimmy_wales @OritKopel @mikehfuchs As a reaction to mounting economic and political inequalities, “populism was helpful—perhaps even necessary—for setting the country back on a more sustainable course,” @DrDaronAcemoglu and James A. Robinson write.

“The same might be true today.”

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